
          Cambridge. 16th. Nov. 1848

My Dear Friend

I forget whether you owe me a letter
or I you. I have had a cover addressed to
you for a good while. I have begun
printing Pl. Fendl. - no proofs yet - and have
revised now my Malvae for the last time, spending
two whole days in examinations & copying. Among
the rest, I conclude we must restore [?].
as a genus.

The specimen of Geranium fremontii 
you was to send [added: to] [crossed out: by] [Frickermann?] for me has
not come yet. If not sent, see whether it
has the long peduncle or no, tho it will no
doubt reach me before the printer gets to it.
I propose to print to [crossed out: past] the end of the Compositae
(which I am now hard at work at) & then leave
for a part 2nd. I trust to make it a creditable
memoir. Certes I have spared no pains with it.

If you have a seed of Gordonia lananthus
that contains an embryo (as I write) it will be
useful indeed to me. Those sent me from Wilmington
have none: nor have the pods of G. pubescens that
grew in Philadelphia.

If you have paid my draft on
        